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Babson College

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 6, 2017

Filed

Jan 31, 2017

To disclose

25 days

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Babson College →3 incidents on file

Babson College reported a phishing attack on January 6, 2017, targeting employee payroll information. The attack was contained, and no funds were transferred. Electronic financial account information for one New Hampshire resident was potentially accessible. The College notified law enforcement, blocked the attacker's IP, reset passwords, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 25 days

Jan 6, 2017

Begins

Jan 6, 2017

Discovered

Jan 31, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_83034e719536d7da2017-01-31Verified

Name: Babson College
norm: babson college
Domain: babson.edu

Name: Babson College
norm: babson college
Domain: babson.edu
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 6, 2017
Breach occurred: Jan 6, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 31, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Financial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566 Phishing
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified law enforcement of the incident
Implemented a firewall rule to block the IP address of the perpetrator’s URL
Administratively changed passwords for impacted individuals
Enforced a campus-wide password reset
Changes made: Offered a complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s ProtectMyID Elite
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 25 days(25 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGJan 31 · first

New Hampshire State AGJan 31 · first · this page

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/babson-college-20170131.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 31, 2017
Raw hash: d810c521441aa48a4783aac55f77ff2ed8a561e27769ebb2cfcef540ba884a2a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBabson College

Victim entityBabson College

Incidentdiscovered Jan 6, 2017

Stated responseNotified law enforcement of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov